CHAPTER XL 
Visit to Prince’s Island— A Ride to Santa Anna— View up the Porto 
— Kru boat dance — New Case of Fever — Return to Clarence — 
Awaiting Orders — Instructions from England expected — Salu- 
brity of the Bay of Amboises — Preparations to re-ascend the 
Niger — Captain Allen’s proposed Plan of Operations— Timely 
arrival of H.M.S. vessel * Kite’ — The Expedition ordered to Eng- 
land— II. M.S. vessel ‘Kite’ ordered to take the crews home by 
Captain Allen Wilberforce’ sent up to the Model Farm with a 
few officei’s and a black crew — Visit to the grave of our companions 
— The ‘Kite’ sails for England — Captain Allen’s illness — Arrival 
of the Expedition at Plymoutli. 
June 5th — Captain Allen being desirous of ascer- 
taining whether the senior officer on tliis coast had 
receiTcd any communication from Government, we 
sailed in the ‘ Wilberforce' for Prince's Island, having 
sent ' Soudan' to lie in the healthy bay of Amboises 
during our absence of a few days. 
The usual head- wind prevailed on tliis little passage, 
and though the thermometer was at 81 '’, the weather 
felt pleasantly cool, proving that there is considerable 
